Re: Incandescent lights was RE: [Vo]:X-prize proposal

2014-02-16 Thread Jed Rothwell
Hoyt A. Stearns Jr. wrote: In cold climates, they make nice localized heaters, and will probably cost > less than what your electric furnace would have cost to run . . . > The energy cost is exactly the same as a resistance electric heater. The equipment cost is far higher. A small, 1.5 kW resis

Incandescent lights was RE: [Vo]:X-prize proposal

2014-02-15 Thread Hoyt A. Stearns Jr.
In cold climates, they make nice localized heaters, and will probably cost less than what your electric furnace would have cost to run, so the efforts to ban them is misguided. ( They're also used in other heating applications and as nice load resistors for electrical testing.) Hoyt Stearns